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7 Apr 2012, 12:29 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] recent attacks by troops loyal to the Syrian government against innocent civilians. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 12:54 pm
The defense lawyer for Mustafa Badreddine [STL profile], one of the four men wanted by the court for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], argued that the UN Security Council [official website] unlawfully established the STL and abused its power by adopting resolution 1757 [text]... [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 11:35 am
[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] announced [press briefing] Tuesday that it is sending human rights officials to investigate the recent attack on a relocation camp for internally displaced persons in Nahibly, Ivory Coast [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 May 2017, 6:04 am
The human rights situation in Belarus has seen a dramatic deterioration, according to a report [materials] published Monday from Miklos Haraszti, the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus. [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 1:35 pm
The Third Committee [official website] of the UN General Assembly passed a resolution [text] on Thursday calling on authorities in Myanmar to address a number of human rights concerns related to the treatment of the country's Rohningya population. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 1:26 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] passed a resolution Friday calling on Sudan [JURIST news archive] to allow a group of rights experts to visit the region of Darfur [JURIST news archive], but did not actually criticize the Sudanese government for the atrocities occurring there. [read post]
9 May 2015, 6:59 am
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [official website] has appealed to Burundi to ensure that the borders remain open and that people be allowed to move freely,... [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 12:14 pm
About 71 percent of human trafficking victims are female and one-third are children, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official website] said in a report [materials] released Wednesday. [read post]
16 Jun 2012, 12:04 pm
[JURIST] Newly appointed UN Independent Expert on Human Rights in Sudan, Mashood Adebayo Baderin, said [press release] on Friday, following his first mission to Sudan, that the country still needs to take further steps to ensure its people have adequate human rights. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 7:59 am
A UN report [report, PDF] released on Thursday stated that failure by parties in eastern Ukraine to implement the Minsk Agreements has led to numerous human rights violations against Ukrainian civilians. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 10:18 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine [official website] released its tenth report [press release, PDF] on Monday, documenting the serious human rights abuses that persist in eastern Ukraine. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 6:11 am
UN human rights experts called [press release] Wednesday for the immediate protection of thousands of Syrian civilians. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 11:14 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] adopted a resolution [text, pdf] on Thursday, appointing a Special Rapporteur to investigate human rights violations in Iran. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 9:38 am
[JURIST] The representative to Colombia for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] Thursday reiterated his call for a peaceful solution to the country's ongoing armed conflict. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 10:29 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] urged the US and Iraq to investigate and prosecute those responsible [statement] for alleged human rights abuses in Iraq after thousands of previously classified documents detailing torture [JURIST news archive] by US and Iraqi forces were posted on WikiLeaks [website]. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 6:11 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro [official profile] told reporters at the end of a five-day visit [JURIST report] to Myanmar [JURIST news archive] Thursday that he was able to meet with a number of prominent political prisoners, but that his request to meet with opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi [JURIST news archive] was denied by the ruling [read post]
14 Feb 2016, 10:51 am
[JURIST] The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) [official website] on Sunday reported [press relase] that civilian casualties in Afghanistan had reached a record high 11,000 in 2015. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 11:17 am
The investigation on which the report is based on was initiated [JURIST report] by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] after allegations [JURIST report] of international human rights violations during a crackdown on anti-government protesters since... [read post]
25 Mar 2003, 1:39 pm
[JURIST] A report released Tuesday by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group [advocacy website] on potential political structures for post-Saddam Iraq rejects the alternatives of direct US authority and interim Iraqi authority in favor of a UN interim administration: [W]ho should run Iraq once hostilities have ceased? [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 1:31 pm
[JURIST] Director General of the UN Educations, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [official website], Irina Bokova [official website], expressed concern Thursday over the abuse of journalists in Syria [press release]. [read post]
